Jowra Photographs - WP-Photolog (23 posts)

After the CSS-Reboot Spring 2006 I finally redesigned my Photolog in the style of my Journal. Using Folderblog for my Photolog more than a year, I switched to WordPress now, added some AJAX and Effects.

There are still some issues to work on, before it is "solid" enough to be released. The AJAX-comments are working, but if new comments are added, the enclosing DIVs did not update its height automatically.

romamor, not using any plugins so far, I will add Tag support via Jeromes Keywords, since the Ultimate Tag Warrior is an overblown code monster, imho. ;)

mindfeck, getting the exif data is coded by hand, simply via the exif-read-data() function. it may help to have a look at the exif code of folderblog. but since I've put the code into an include file, I could email it to you if you like.

dgold, categories are no problem, just like in "normal" wp-themes. you may add a list_categories() or something similar. But I think using Tags is smarter, cause it may be bothering to add new categories for new keywords all the time. ;)

Works fine so far. I'm trying to release this as a theme in the near future, but since first of all it was design for my personal photoblog, it will take some time to put it in a more general layout for using it as a wordpress theme.

For instance: I've modified some WP core files (thumbnailing and such...) and that isn't practicable for users that just want to copy the theme in theme folder and start blogging. ;)

Oh, your blog is so beautiful! It seems both totally Western and totally Japanese at the same time.

Perhaps the theme/blog is not as simple as it seems, with added Ajax. I did leave a comment, and noticed the way in which you had a built-in comment spam detector.

I will bookmark this blog as a way to rest my eyes after blogging my own text-heavy blog all night; as a daily (or hourly) fix of elegance; as a visual expression approaching the elegance of a mathematical proof; as any way to escape obsession with the very very different topic of my blog!.

Great theme! One suggestion though: there is too much white space above the photo so on a 15inch screen one has to scroll down to see it all. If you remove some of the white space then the entire photo will be visible visout scrolling.

hi jowra!
any chance that you could release this photoblog as a theme for wordpress or that you can tell us which plugins you're using and maybe write down a short tutorial howto create a page like this?
Thanks.

I want to release it since long time ago. I've hacked my theme, which isn't a big problem, except for the thumbnail-generation. For that I've modified some wordpress core files for that, but that means all the changes must be redone after an upgrade.

I'm still looking for a simple, a really simple plugin that gives the possibility to set up cropped square thumbnails. But all I found where numerous plugins for galleries, image browsers and so on.

I think a change in the upload-features of wordpress is planed for the release of wordpress 2.2, but who knows when this will arrive? ;-)

So, the release of my template isn't a big deal. With some instructions it is quite usable, but it wouldn't produce these square thumbnails, only the standard ones that wordpress generates.